Moscow: V-E DAY: Europe's Separate Fates

A quarter of a century ago, the exhausted and half-leveled Continent of
Europe declared an end to World War II. It was V-E day, the moment of
Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allied forces of the
U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union. In retrospect, May 8, 1945, was not
the joyous release from conflict that it seemed to anyone who still
remembers that bright spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war
would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone of seem ingly
permanent confrontation. Last week the nations...